Palestine between ‘resistance’, ‘liberation’ … mirage and illusion

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DO the Palestinians want to solve their case and establish a state, or do they want displacement, and political and financial blackmail practiced by their organizations – a practice that has become their hobby and thus led to wasting all the opportunities that have been available to them since 1919 until today?

Are the Arabs serious about the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, or are they satisfied with just issuing denouncing statements and remarks and continuing with the talk about international resolutions that have not been implemented – because they did not strive to implement them?

Aren’t the 20 factions, and about 21 others before them who lived on this issue and whose guns shed Arab blood more than Israelis’ blood during the wars that were fought, starting from the Nakba (1948) war to the recent one, were just skirmishes that further complicated the issue and kept it off-track? Ultimately, this issue was all about the refugees and those who hosting them.

The aforementioned questions and many others, which were asked in the past and continue to occupy many minds, are yet to receive convincing answers. This is due to the fact that none of the relevant authority or rather players worked on changing the status quo in the past decades.

In fact, there was no actual Palestinian voice talking about the possibility of solving this case under the principle of give-and-take that the late Habib Bourguiba spoke about in the year 1966 when he visited the West Bank and realized that the popular mood is separate from the reality of its national crisis.

At that time, Bourguiba was considered as a traitor, and was condemned by several Arab countries.

Few months later, the same people went on to accept the international resolutions that robbed them of their rights due to the defeat in the 1967 war. Instead of taking advantage of the opportunity in hand, they escalated their rhetoric which was met by what Bourguiba had said about the case, something that they did not like at all.

Meanwhile, Israel was settling in the areas it occupied. Today, it is practicing full sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and is slowly swallowing the West Bank under the eyes of the many resistance factions and the illusion of 150,000 missiles that are ready to liberate Palestine.

Worst of all, the Palestinians themselves are divided and waging war with one another in an unprecedented ferocity.

In the year 1968 after the Battle of Karama (honor), the Palestinians had serious opportunity to establish a path for liberating their land, despite the great negative impacts brought by the setbacks that the Arabs experienced due to the wars. However, they decided to target Jordan, which was hosting several Palestinian organizations, in an attempt to establish an alternative homeland. They engaged in conflicts with the Jordanian army instead of targeting their efforts towards liberating their land that was snatched from them by the Israelis.

The end result was that they ended up being expelled from Jordan and sent to Lebanon where they took over a piece of land that they called “Fatah land”. There they rapidly transformed into becoming the fuel that undermined the pillars of Lebanon, after which they transformed into a “liberation movement”, and then ended up becoming the de facto authority in Lebanon, causing Israel to step in to unplug them.

The Palestinians failed to use all these opportunities to their advantage, and unfortunately the Arabs to this day are not frankly speaking with the people who are afflicting pain among themselves under the pretext of national resistant armed factions.

It is time for the Arabs to reveal the truth and hold them accountable for their failure to benefit from the Camp David agreement, and their contribution to undermining the Oslo Agreement and any other agreement. They fought their own wars at the expense of the Palestinians who volunteered for that at their will.

The Arabs in Palestine are only concerned about Jerusalem, but not the entire city; just the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Therefore, they have no problem with Jerusalem being an open city or Al-Aqsa Mosque remaining under the supervision of Jordan.

Perhaps, they are taking a stance similar to that of Abdul-Muttaleb when he told Abraha Al-Ashram Al-Habashi that, “This house has its lord who protects it”. That was when Almighty Allah sent him flocks of birds that were ten times stronger than the F-35 fighter jets.

Therefore, there will not be any problem if the Arabs and Muslims secure the freedom to visit Al-Aqsa Mosque. As for the proposed state capital, that is not their most important issue.

The Palestinians have no option other than to negotiate with the Israelis. They must realize that the Arab countries that agreed to this request from them will not fall into the trap of aligning with one Palestinian party against the other, because they will become a target for either one of them.

This is because supporting Abu Mazen will render you to become a target of the HAMAS and other Jihadi groups. If you support the HAMAS and other Jihadi groups, Abu Mazen’s group will consider you as a traitor. And any attempt to declare neutrality will end up with you being attacked by all of the Palestinian movements.

Since the partition resolution was issued in the year 1947, the Arabs did not realize the great international change that took place. They did not seriously consider the positions of the countries that recognized Israel immediately after the decision was issued, in order to reflect on them.

For example, they considered Russia, which was the first country to recognize Israel, as their historical ally, when in reality Russia exploited them during its Cold War, as well as the United States of America, Britain and France.

They failed to realize that, the weak never liberate a land, and those who possess the power render falsehood to be true. This is why they brought upon themselves this dilemma from which they no longer have an exit except by accepting Trump’s initiative; or else all that is there for them is mirage and illusion.

By Ahmed Al-Jarallah

Editor-in-Chief, the Arab Times

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